Resist
The crossword clue "Resist" is answered by DEFY, a 4-letter entry. Used 14 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1964. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DEFY
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DEFY answer page.
Used 14 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1964. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- TWISTEDSISTER (5 uses in xd)
- STEMTHETIDE (3 uses in xd)
Other clues for DEFY
Every other clue in this collection answered by DEFY, most used first.
- Stand up to - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
- Challenge - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Refuse to obey - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Go against - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Resist boldly - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Fly in the face of - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Rebel against - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Buck - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Resist openly - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
- Thumb one's nose at - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Flout - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Resist, as authority - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Hard-to-resist impulse - URGE, used 21 times
- Suffix with resist - ANCE, used 9 times
- Hard-to-resist feeling - URGE, used 6 times
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